NEARWeek Edition #19 (16 - 22 Aug 2021)

JPALHUMAIDAN · August 23, 2021, 6:58pm

NEAR WEEK EDITION #19

16 -22 AUG 2021

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Big things around the ecosystem:

See you in Lisbon for NEAR Con Oct 26-27.
NEAR Foundation awarded a $50,000 grant to Grain to support the development of smart contracts on the NEAR blockchain.
“ITS SUSHI O’CLOCK” NEAR coming to SushiSwap.
Octopus 2,5% IDO sale took off on Skyward Finance.
A new era of gaming is NEAR with OPGames!
Creating an open-source library of audited smart contracts on NEAR.

NEAR’s week by the numbers:

Check out the full metrics dashboard here and last week’s metrics update here.

Current ecosystem:

DAOs:

SputnikDAO metrics:
- Total distributed all-time: 548,141 $NEAR
- Total transactions: 10,441
- Total DAOs: 180
- TVL: 231,787 $NEAR
Sputnik / Astro update
A DAO now owns IP and funds biotech research at a leading lab.
NEARWEEK took its first step in the NEARWEEK DAO journey.

DeFi:

Staking Monday’s next guest is NEAR’s very own Illia Polosukhin.
“ITS SUSHI O’CLOCK” NEAR coming to SushiSwap.
- How to stake on SushiSwap.
This is how Meta Pool works - it is live and you can start staking today.
After the exploit Ref Finance will officially re-launch at 12am (UTC) on Aug. 23.
- Here is the proposal to fork $REF token.
- Check the balances that got refunded.
Earn $REF with the Octopus Network launch.
Announcing the launch of NearPad’s token distribution event for the platform’s native $PAD token.
Crypto.com DeFi wallet is now supporting NEAR!
NEAR is building out its core, native DeFi infrastructure. Check it out!

Developers:

Developer office hours are live - It’s a new daily dev support initiative which summarises all the questions from the NEAR Discord channel #dev-support. Go check it out!
- NEAR Sighted Weekend Roundup with highlights from last week.
A new version of nearcore 1.21.0-rc.1 for testnet was released. If you are running a node on testnet, please upgrade to the new version.
You can now see all the details about the validation nodes on NEAR wallet.
Latest DevRel update is available here.
Watch the latest Dev Platform Sync here.
Read the latest Dev Platform, Wallet and Node Experience Team updates here.
Check the NEPs Github here.
Learn NEAR in a Community-based initiative: videos bound to make your NEAR journey so much easier!
Looking for a good introduction to start building on NEAR? Check out NEAR Onboarding Bootcamp!

Project Growth:

METABuidl hackathon with up to $1M prizes: NEAR is partnering with ecosystem partners. You bring an idea related to your product. NEAR brings the prize!
- Want to get a headstart? Join NEAR Education’s series of pre-hackathon workshops.
- Check out the challenges.
- Timeline of the hackathon event.
- The cities confirmed as hack nodes.
OWS Rewards and Opportunities August.
OWC is officially accepting applications for BATCH III now! Batch III will start in September.
The “Creators of the Blockchain” OWS program has officially launched.

Projects:

ARrterra Labs closed their seed round. Massive congrats!
Octopus network — a revolution in parachains deployment?
HEO announces the first campaign on their platform.
Avrit: Earn for learning. It’s decentralized edu using evidence-based learning strategies.
Why Aurora is different from other Ethereum scaling solutions.
Watch the latest Aurora update here or read it here.

Gaming

A new era of gaming is NEAR with OPGames! OPGames gives gamers the ability to shape, define, and ultimately own the games they enjoy.
Head of gaming @youtube: Play-to-earn is the next major gaming model.
PixelDapps announced a partnership with Crypto Heroes.
Gaming development update from Human Guild
NEAR Games guild is live! Join the community of gamers and game creators based on NEAR Protocol.
Human Guild is sponsoring this year’s Js13kGames: a yearly competition where JS and html5 game developers compete for prizes!
A thought on how future games will be developed on web3 by Aliaksandr Hudzilin

Events

“Learn & Earn Series- Near” Quiz 2 with Bitmart.
FirstBlood and NEAR will host a Call of Duty Warzone Tournament with a $60,000 prize pool starting Aug. 8.
- Congratulations to Team Different Breed for winning the first NEARzone Warzone Tournament!
Game jam by Js13kGames - Join the decentralization category and win $NEAR 13 Aug. - 13 Sep.
The Gitcoin Open DeFi Hackathon is NEAR’s first DeFi hackathon Aug. 18 - Sep. 8.
Paras Card4Card is back Aug. 20-24.
$OCT sale on Skyward Finance Aug. 22-27.
Metapool liquid staking on NEAR blockchain (stNEAR) Aug. 23.
NEAR August Town Hall features Humanguild, Paras and Mintbase - Join and get updated on the future of NFTs Aug. 26.
It’s time for MetaBUIDL Hackathon with NEAR. The infrastructure is ready to onboard the next billion users to Web3 - $1MIO in prizes!. Aug. 27.

Guilds:

Infrastructure:

NEAR Core Engineering update available here.
Useful on-chain data explorers for performance tracking of the ecosystem.
Check out the newest version of NEAR VISION. It’s full of updates on the ecosystem!
NEAR Social Volume hit an all-time high on 8,018 unique social mentions in 24h
- NEAR is the second most mentioned Token on Twitter!

NFTs:

Open jobs in the NEARverse

Join the ecosystem!

Other updates: